LinkedIn For Photographers

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Not too long ago I received an email from PhotoShelter asking for my feedback on Photographers using LinkedIn. That interview was to be included in their Photographer’s Social Media Handbook. While I highly recommend downloading the free PDF from PhotoShelter, I wanted to share the conversation here on my blog. PhotoShelter did cut out some [...]

Buffer Your Updates The Right Way

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To me, Social Media is about the conversation and engagement.  It’s about connecting with customers and colleagues around the world.  Even with Twitter and Facebook being around as long as they have,  there are so many people out there that completely automating their streams. In my opinion, automation is okay as long as the person [...]

The road ahead. Where life takes us.

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I have some news I decided to share with my readers.  I have officially resigned from Mack Camera & Video Service.  It has been a wonderful six years with the company.  I have grown in so many ways.  Life decided to throw a wonderful opportunity in my direction.  Without getting into too much detail, I [...]

Book Recommendation: The Linked Photographers’ Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media

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This weekend I had the pleasure to read Rosh and Lindsay’s book “The Linked Photographers’ Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media“. Rosh and Lindsay talk about all of the details of marketing yourself in this new media world. They talk about things as simple as a Twitter profile bio, what hashtags to use and [...]

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There is so much to do in New Jersey that most people don’t know about. That is why I picked up a few tourist brochures. I plan on seeing and photographing as much of New Jersey as I can. Photographed for Project 365 (292). Read about 292 here. You can also visit http//scottwyden.com/365 to view [...]

Marketing your Photography Business using Social Media

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If you didn’t have a chance to read it already I wrote a great article on Seshu’s Tiffinbox Blog. It’s all about photography, social media and getting new customers. Give it a read and I hope you learn something from it. Seshu’s Tiffinbox is a great source for photographers to learn new things and read [...]

A friendly reminder, please join me on Facebook

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It may have started with MySpace but social media has grown so large. There is Facebook, Twitter and now even Google Buzz. In this day in age photographers need to branch out everywhere they can. I am on most of the social media websites as you can see from the links in the sidebar to [...]

Photographer Website Tips

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Going along with my photographer tips for Facebook and twitter I decided to talk about some website tips. By trade photographers are not web designers so every tip can help, right? These are my opinion so if you think I’m wrong then so be it but this is how I see it as a customer [...]

Photographer Facebook Tips

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Here are some tips for photographers that created a Facebook fan page and either don’t already know what do with it or are trying to do more. I hope this gives you some ideas! My Tips: Create a Facebook page, not a group to use apps and stats Use iFrames to create a great welcome [...]

New Jersey Twitter List

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John Milleker‘s Tweet on Twitter about the Maryland Twitter list got me thinking…where is the New Jersey list?  So here goes! RT @george_murphy Okay, last update. Maryland twitter users list has been completed http://tinyurl.com/c8atz7less than a minute ago via webJohn Milleker JohnMilleker Here is a list of New Jersey users on Twitter. If you’d like [...]